Islands in Space book (was Rama)

Hi Friends:

I dont know about the name "Xenophile" in Greek. That is interesting.
However I do know Spanish (language related to Latin), and in that
language the equivalent to Xenophile is "Amador", a Man that loves
everybody, mainly women, but also the whole humanity :)

Regards,

Omar Vega

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"
wrote:
>
> --- In spacesettlers, Anton Sherwood wrote:
>
> > "Michael Capriola" wrote:
>
> >>> I will name my first born after you.
> >>> "Xenophile" is okay for either a boy or a girl, yes?
>
> > Xenophile wrote:
>
> >> I should think so. Anybody here know Greek?
> >> Do proper nouns shift for gender?
>
> > Yes, but _xenophile_ appears to be an English coinage, and the
> > gendered ending was stripped when -phile was adopted into English.
>
> Interesting. I chose the name because it would be the opposite of
> xenophobe, and because I enjoyed the Phil Foglio comic.
>
> > I don't know much Greek but my dictionary has _philoxenos,
> > philoxen_ `hospitable'. (In some dialects the feminine -a did
not